Switch Buying Guide

After Xenosaga HD remaster trilogy

'Not my circus, not my monkeys', as my favourite Polish phrase goes.

Six months of planning work (for me, I'm sure it took longer for others), culminating in the blink of an eye. Can I have a rest now? #NintendoMusic

Needs Android Auto support so I can use it in my car.

I'll give Musk a call, get it compatible with all Teslas immediately.

I've downloaded it. I can conveniently listen to the Metroid Prime soundtrack now, that's cool! It wasn't on Spotify.

I've got Phendrana Drifts on now. 🙂

Fuck, forgot about Metroid… that's me throwing on Magmoor Caverns for a 15-min play over lunch.

Interesting that it's Prime GameCube that's listed, not Prime Remastered from Switch. I can't recall if the remaster had all-new versions of the tunes…

Are more soundtracks going to be added? Pikmin is one of my son's special interests, and I think if the first three games' soundtracks were on there you'd have a dedicated listener for life.

Are more soundtracks going to be added?

Yes, on a fairly regular basis - I think there are five more lined up throughout November already. I believe SMB Wonder gets added today.

I've messed around with it a bit more and I really like it. It does have a tendency to crash if you reopen it from your list of open apps. I also think the individual composers should be credited. They're not, unless I'm missing something. It's a great start to something that will only get better in time, though.

Edit - omg it's got the Wii Shop music. "Buy zee stuuuff.."

Mart, can you make them put this version on the app please?

No, because the only version of the Wii Shop music that belongs on there is this one.

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No, wait, maybe this one too.

Switch 2 Backwards Compatible, we won.

Okay, so twice now, something weird has happened with my partner's Switch OLED that's plugged into our TV. Not sure if I mentioned it the first time when we were playing Breath of the Wild, but it happened again last night while I was playing Brothership, so I have to mention it. Pretty simple:

• Game running as normal
• Screen briefly cuts out and goes to black
• Game comes back and it's running at a much higher frame rate than before.

I can't say what frame rate that might be, because my eyes don't work like that. But it was noticeably smoother and faster (I want to say… more than 60FPS?), to the point that it was disrupting the timing of the button presses in battle… I was missing button presses, despite not having trouble before. So, either something was going on or I was having a stroke.

Going to investigate on teh webs and see if anyone's had the same issue, but it's just… weird. Switch isn't meant to run that fast.

I saw people posting after the recent update that there Switch was running hotter and the fan was louder even when docked, but haven't really followed anything further. She hasn't had anything like that has she?

That sounds more like a TV problem to me, like your TV is switching motion smoothing on suddenly for some reason instead of Game mode. That’ll make everything look superficially smoother but will massively increase input lag to the point it’ll mess up your inputs.

What TV do you have? You didn’t sit on the remote, did you?

Gar's got the handle on it - I found a Reddit thread from a year ago for this exact same issue with the same OLED (Zelda TotK). Turned out to be the TV deciding to change something on its own. I'll investigate what setting that might be, but it definitely did it without input from me, butt-related or otherwise…

I don't think it'll apply to anyone here, since we're all generally types that would need family memberships, BUT: Nintendo Switch Online and Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack is currently 'buy one year, get a second year free' for individual 12-month memberships ONLY (not 1- or 3-month ones, not family memberships). You're meant to give the other code to a friend because it's the Bring a Friend promotion, but… hey. And my work discount stacks with this, so that's an extra 30% off.

If anyone here wants that, drop me a DM (I should note: it's one purchase per customer so if anyone does want it, it's the only one I can buy… I don't want it, so the floor is open)

Does it stack on what you have? I have the standard with expansion but it doesn't expire till April.

Does it stack on what you have? I have the standard with expansion but it doesn't expire till April.

You can stack up to three years of NSO, but no more (so, for example, if you have 18 months and you bought this, you'd lose 6 months).

Would it keep my expansion though or bump me back to regular subscription?

It's valid for both NSO and NSO + Expansion Pack. You get the one you want. It's not just base NSO.